Title
Automatic QoS control in UPnP home networks
Abstract
UPnP Forum specifies a framework for quality of service (QoS) in its UPnP QoS architecture. The framework enables automatic configuration of priority based QoS to network devices according to local policies. The downside of the framework is that it relies on a control point, which acts as an initiator for UPnP QoS operations. In practice, this means that each application should explicitly support UPnP QoS to be able to use the services provided by the framework. In this paper, we propose a supplemental component for the architecture which enables the use of UPnP QoS without any support from the applications using the network. The network traffic is listened by a passive component which uses statistical methods for classifying the network traffic flows and acts as a control point for the UPnP QoS framework. Our results show that even very simple behavior-based methods can be used for traffic classification with a fairly good precision. In our experiment, the automatic UPnP QoS control point was able to perform the classification with an overall accuracy of 92% based only on the packet sizes of the four first packet of each flow. We assume that the accuracy can be further improved using additional mechanisms after the initial fast classification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202276
Sousse
Keywords
Field
DocType
home computing,local area networks,quality of service,statistical analysis,telecommunication control,telecommunication traffic,UPnP home network,automatic QoS control,network traffic,passive component,statistical methods,universal plug-and-play forum
Traffic classification,Computer science,Universal Plug and Play,Network packet,Networking hardware,Computer network,Quality of service,Home automation,Automatic control,Local area network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1346 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-4671-1
978-1-4244-4671-1
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jukka-Pekka Laulajainen1235.60
Matti Hirvonen250.85